Re: How to boot FreeBSD from DOS through a 3c905c ?

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>Robert> I need setup several diskless clients - X terminals running
>Robert> under FreeBSD. I am looking for a DOS utility that could do
>Robert> boot FreeBSD through a 3c905c network card. However, I keep
>Robert> running into various problems I have not been able to solve:
>Robert> Etherboot does not seem to support 3c905c. I even came across
>Robert> some message explicitly stating this. Due to my poor
>Robert> connection to the Internet I have not been able to download
>Robert> the source to verify this. Moreover I have a feeling that
>Robert> etherboot can't be compiled into a DOS utility, only a ROM
>Robert> image.

Etherboot supports FreeBSD booting (ELF and a.out) now since 4.2.8,
(but from ROM or floppy, not DOS) you just need to add some ifdefs
to the Config. As for the 905C, non-support is what's claimed by the
author of the driver. I would like to see somebody give it a try with
the existing driver.  I don't know if the difference is minor and just
involves a new PCI device ID and maybe some small mods to the code or
is a major chip revision.
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